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diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt b/drivers/staging/erofs/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 74cf84ac48a3..000000000000 --- a/drivers/staging/erofs/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,209 +0,0 @@ -Overview -======== - -EROFS file-system stands for Enhanced Read-Only File System. Different -from other read-only file systems, it aims to be designed for flexibility, -scalability, but be kept simple and high performance. - -It is designed as a better filesystem solution for the following scenarios: - - read-only storage media or - - - part of a fully trusted read-only solution, which means it needs to be - immutable and bit-for-bit identical to the official golden image for - their releases due to security and other considerations and - - - hope to save some extra storage space with guaranteed end-to-end performance - by using reduced metadata and transparent file compression, especially - for those embedded devices with limited memory (ex, smartphone); - -Here is the main features of EROFS: - - Little endian on-disk design; - - - Currently 4KB block size (nobh) and therefore maximum 16TB address space; - - - Metadata & data could be mixed by design; - - - 2 inode versions for different requirements: - v1 v2 - Inode metadata size: 32 bytes 64 bytes - Max file size: 4 GB 16 EB (also limited by max. vol size) - Max uids/gids: 65536 4294967296 - File creation time: no yes (64 + 32-bit timestamp) - Max hardlinks: 65536 4294967296 - Metadata reserved: 4 bytes 14 bytes - - - Support extended attributes (xattrs) as an option; - - - Support xattr inline and tail-end data inline for all files; - - - Support POSIX.1e ACLs by using xattrs; - - - Support transparent file compression as an option: - LZ4 algorithm with 4 KB fixed-output compression for high performance; - -The following git tree provides the file system user-space tools under -development (ex, formatting tool mkfs.erofs): ->> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git - -Bugs and patches are welcome, please kindly help us and send to the following -linux-erofs mailing list: ->> linux-erofs mailing list <linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org> - -Note that EROFS is still working in progress as a Linux staging driver, -Cc the staging mailing list as well is highly recommended: ->> Linux Driver Project Developer List <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org> - -Mount options -============= - -fault_injection=%d Enable fault injection in all supported types with - specified injection rate. Supported injection type: - Type_Name Type_Value - FAULT_KMALLOC 0x000000001 - FAULT_READ_IO 0x000000002 -(no)user_xattr Setup Extended User Attributes. Note: xattr is enabled - by default if CONFIG_EROFS_FS_XATTR is selected. -(no)acl Setup POSIX Access Control List. Note: acl is enabled - by default if CONFIG_EROFS_FS_POSIX_ACL is selected. - -On-disk details -=============== - -Summary -------- -Different from other read-only file systems, an EROFS volume is designed -to be as simple as possible: - - |-> aligned with the block size - ____________________________________________________________ - | |SB| | ... | Metadata | ... | Data | Metadata | ... | Data | - |_|__|_|_____|__________|_____|______|__________|_____|______| - 0 +1K - -All data areas should be aligned with the block size, but metadata areas -may not. All metadatas can be now observed in two different spaces (views): - 1. Inode metadata space - Each valid inode should be aligned with an inode slot, which is a fixed - value (32 bytes) and designed to be kept in line with v1 inode size. - - Each inode can be directly found with the following formula: - inode offset = meta_blkaddr * block_size + 32 * nid - - |-> aligned with 8B - |-> followed closely - + meta_blkaddr blocks |-> another slot - _____________________________________________________________________ - | ... | inode | xattrs | extents | data inline | ... | inode ... - |________|_______|(optional)|(optional)|__(optional)_|_____|__________ - |-> aligned with the inode slot size - . . - . . - . . - . . - . . - . . - .____________________________________________________|-> aligned with 4B - | xattr_ibody_header | shared xattrs | inline xattrs | - |____________________|_______________|_______________| - |-> 12 bytes <-|->x * 4 bytes<-| . - . . . - . . . - . . . - ._______________________________.______________________. - | id | id | id | id | ... | id | ent | ... | ent| ... | - |____|____|____|____|______|____|_____|_____|____|_____| - |-> aligned with 4B - |-> aligned with 4B - - Inode could be 32 or 64 bytes, which can be distinguished from a common - field which all inode versions have -- i_advise: - - __________________ __________________ - | i_advise | | i_advise | - |__________________| |__________________| - | ... | | ... | - | | | | - |__________________| 32 bytes | | - | | - |__________________| 64 bytes - - Xattrs, extents, data inline are followed by the corresponding inode with - proper alignes, and they could be optional for different data mappings, - _currently_ there are totally 3 valid data mappings supported: - - 1) flat file data without data inline (no extent); - 2) fixed-output size data compression (must have extents); - 3) flat file data with tail-end data inline (no extent); - - The size of the optional xattrs is indicated by i_xattr_count in inode - header. Large xattrs or xattrs shared by many different files can be - stored in shared xattrs metadata rather than inlined right after inode. - - 2. Shared xattrs metadata space - Shared xattrs space is similar to the above inode space, started with - a specific block indicated by xattr_blkaddr, organized one by one with - proper align. - - Each share xattr can also be directly found by the following formula: - xattr offset = xattr_blkaddr * block_size + 4 * xattr_id - - |-> aligned by 4 bytes - + xattr_blkaddr blocks |-> aligned with 4 bytes - _________________________________________________________________________ - | ... | xattr_entry | xattr data | ... | xattr_entry | xattr data ... - |________|_____________|_____________|_____|______________|_______________ - -Directories ------------ -All directories are now organized in a compact on-disk format. Note that -each directory block is divided into index and name areas in order to support -random file lookup, and all directory entries are _strictly_ recorded in -alphabetical order in order to support improved prefix binary search -algorithm (could refer to the related source code). - - ___________________________ - / | - / ______________|________________ - / / | nameoff1 | nameoffN-1 - ____________.______________._______________v________________v__________ -| dirent | dirent | ... | dirent | filename | filename | ... | filename | -|___.0___|____1___|_____|___N-1__|____0_____|____1_____|_____|___N-1____| - \ ^ - \ | * could have - \ | trailing '\0' - \________________________| nameoff0 - - Directory block - -Note that apart from the offset of the first filename, nameoff0 also indicates -the total number of directory entries in this block since it is no need to -introduce another on-disk field at all. - -Compression ------------ -Currently, EROFS supports 4KB fixed-output clustersize transparent file -compression, as illustrated below: - - |---- Variant-Length Extent ----|-------- VLE --------|----- VLE ----- - clusterofs clusterofs clusterofs - | | | logical data -_________v_______________________________v_____________________v_______________ -... | . | | . | | . | ... -____|____.________|_____________|________.____|_____________|__.__________|____ - |-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-| - size size size size size - . . . . - . . . . - . . . . - _______._____________._____________._____________._____________________ - ... | | | | ... physical data - _______|_____________|_____________|_____________|_____________________ - |-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-|-> cluster <-| - size size size - -Currently each on-disk physical cluster can contain 4KB (un)compressed data -at most. For each logical cluster, there is a corresponding on-disk index to -describe its cluster type, physical cluster address, etc. - -See "struct z_erofs_vle_decompressed_index" in erofs_fs.h for more details. - |